--- Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> wrote:
> > > Well, I suspect I'm not entirely alone in
> > > thinking that Gods and ethical duties both
> > > belong to the immaterial.
> >
> >I don't see religion or gods (or
> >Gods for those that prefer) are prerequisites for
> >ethics.
>
> I don't think that religion (in the usual sense) is
> a prerequisite for
> ethics. I do however argue that consistent
> materialism has to deny both.
Why is this? I can see that it would most likely deny
religion (at least religion in a spiritual sense, the
way a dictionary might define it). Not sure I'd agree
that materialists are necessarily unethical, though.
> >You said the mental part of the universe
> >follows natural laws [please reread what you wrote
> >above]; _that's_ what I'm aiming at. I want to know
> >what you mean by this.
> What I mean by it: There could conceiveably be set
> of laws, similar to the
> laws of physics, that determine the developments and
> interactions of the
> mental part of the universe, and presumeably it's
> interactions with the
> material part too.
OK, that explains.
> Andreas
Padraic.
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